"LONDON, Feb. 3
(A.A.P.).-An Argentine
shore party on Friday
fired shots over the heads
of a British group landing
from the survey ship
John Biscoe at Hope
Bay, in Antarctica.
Hope Bay is on the tip of
Graham Land in the Falkland Islands Dependencies,
claimed by Britain, Argentina, and Chile.
The British party was
landing to re-establish
Britain's Hope Bay base
which was evacuated in
1949.
The Argentinians, however, supported by a transport vessel and a tanker
which had arrived earlier in
the bay, refused the party
permission to land."
Hope Bay is on the tip of Graham Land in the Falkland Islands Dependencies, claimed by Britain, Argentina, and Chile. The British party was landing to re-establish Britain's Hope Bay base which was evacuated in 1949.
The Argentinians, however, supported by a transport vessel and a tanker which had arrived earlier in the bay, refused the party permission to land."